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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 1h
Mamdani doesn’t have kids yet at least?
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 1h
The NYPD also has refused to do large swaths of their jobs since the George Floyd uprisings. At a cop town hall last year at my precinct they said they refuse to enforce traffic laws because of that. There is a weekly street race that occurs outside of the precinct building.
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 1h
The last time a mayor tried to enact the world’s most mild reform the NYPD kidnapped and held hostage his daughter. So. You know.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 2h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 9h
Gdi lmao
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol found the lost writer
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Everyone at the end of Lost season 2: it really seems like the mystery of Lost is they’re in purgatory Writers: LOL NO YOURE ALL SO DUMB ITS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THAT TRUST US *N seasons of Lost continue on* Writers: GET THIS GUYS THEYVE BEEN IN PURGATORY THIS WHOLE TIME WHAT A TWIST
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tucker Carlson also pulled this shit in recent memory lol
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah I imagine they did in John wick just because it looks cool lol
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In John Wick he was apparently doing an actual close-quarters stance called “center axis relock” where he’s holding it at like a 45 degree angle, and had a cantered red dot sight (with scope on top) to allow using the gun like that. Holding it completely sideways is silly tho
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tables are an extension of markdown. Most renderers these days support it but it’s not part of core markdown.
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No. 50k images can be processed in a few seconds. It is a lot of worryingly private data captured indiscriminately, and consumed by god knows who, but it is an infinitesimal amount of data in the scheme of what happens in big data centers.
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NSA also had a PS3 cluster
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Circa 2013 or so
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
lol this was a major plot point in the show Person of Interest
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
lol yeah I know. Work forces its use (non-AI code gets specifically marked as such and I imagine rolled up into some surveillance bullshit). It’s so bad.
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Prevailing feeling amongst myself and coworkers at a Big Tech is that we’re all quickly getting dumber and less capable of thinking
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 11/09/2026
just to say the quiet part out loud when americans are reminiscing about post-9/11 unity it isnt any sort of positive unity like comradery or friendship. it's the unity of a pogrom
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What I remember about those weeks were mostly the vile strings of racist slurs coming out of every white dude i saw in person or on tv’s mouth. And giving by how that went for us, it really does seem like bin Laden couldn’t have imagined that 2 planes could bring down an entire empire.
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It is true. You can build these models yourself from scratch. You can see precisely how they work. OpenAI or Anthropic do not have magic sauce other than hundreds of billions of dollars to burn on compute and data to run it at a larger scale. it’s just “given previous words, what is the next word?”
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
That’s not what the sample was. The “sample” was all NFL players who have played at least 1 game since 1949 and whose brains were donated to a university brain bank. They then corrected for increased probability of donated brains having CTE. You can read the full study www.bmj.com/content/394/...
bmj.com
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Screens in cars are dangerous. The center console and the dash should be able to be operated by touch (like they used to be). You should never to take your eyes off the road to adjust basic car functions like radio, ac, etc
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Yeah and they all suck shit. Taking your eyes off the road to look at a map (or music, or whatever) is dangerous. The only ones I’ve liked are the phone holders that put it in your field of view
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
That is a fucking usability and safety abomination
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s a shame Wolfenstein seems to be the only series that Gets It
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is certainly words you can put in that order, I guess
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Lmao I am only just now learning that wasn’t literally a cyberpunk Henry Rollins (it looks like his character in Johnny Mnemonic) I had just assumed it was him and rolled with it I guess
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yeah. None of this stops Google from training their models on your emails.
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
lol don’t even need it to be doing anything. It’s a space heater at idle (still the best computer cases ever made tho)
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
*looks at polls in Germany showing the AfD leading* I mean I hope you guys don’t but I wouldn’t be so smug
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why do they need to do it lawfully and legally? I thought that was the entire fucking lesson we’ve learned over the last decade. I want a dem president who will come in, tell SCOTUS to go fuck itself, and plow thru the necessary reforms to unfuck the country. I am no longer interested in “legality”
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
They always do the pc release 2-3 years after the console release since at least 4 (3 was also delayed but I don’t recall how much). I assume they have a demons pact with the decaying original corpse of Mr Halo and Crash Bandicoot
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yes actually
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Love to be incentivized to find rural areas without good station coverage and set up a network of cheap bullshit “stations” to game the gambling website while providing false data to people who rely on it. Cool system we’ve set up.
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
No she just has been doing hair curls to build her hairceps
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wonder if you could use EU data privacy laws to get that file. Anyway hope those super trustworthy companies give a shit about protecting those files from hackers and employees alike.
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Personalized LLMs like Anthropic or OpenAI’s chatbots do not “learn” in that the model is static. The weights cannot update. The personalization is literally a YourName.txt file where it keeps all of the notes about tone/language preferences, conversations, etc. that get injected into the prompt.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 27/08/2026
tungsten cubes are overrated. concrete cube.
a block of concrete with a lighter embedded in it
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Crank series is High Art and I will fight any nerds who suggest orherwise
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My brains have done it. They’ve fully leaked out of my ears is sloughing across the floor trying to distance itself from whatever the fuck this is
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh cool going to have to throw away my AirPods so people don’t think I’m a fucking creep
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’ve applied for so many jobs with “at least 3 years of experience in technology X” where that tech was invented 9 months ago lol
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Extremely funny to me that apparently so few lawyers ever read or even briefly skim a terms of service
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
He’s not talking to “swing voters” (who aren’t watching weekend morning cable news shows). He’s talking and reassuring his corporate backers who make money off of these things.
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Oh because those are not things he agrees with (because his corporate funders are making money from those things)
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
he came so close to adding his own fingers to the meat pile so many times
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
God this movie fucking slaps so hard
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Guys… the world economy is about to collapse and the president has turned the stock market into his weekly slot machine jackpot and made billions off crypto while his party pretends everything is fine and you’re talking about a twitch streamer. Hilarious. Complete joke of a news industry
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They called *her* a communist lol
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what @smidbot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Who could have possibly foreseen that ICE would do the thing cops have been doing since they got body cameras
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